In Austria, Eqrem Vlora, a political activist and diplomat, passed away. He was born in Vlora. He finished Vienna’s “Theresianum” lyceum and studied law in Istanbul. He served in important positions in the Ottoman Empire. Later, he joined his uncle, Ismal Qemal Vlora, in the movement for the independence of Albania. After the declaration of Independence, he was elected vice-president of the Eldership. He was a known supporter of the Central Powers during the First World War, for which the Italians arrested him, but then became a promoter of close relations between Italy and Albania. In 1924, he was elected deputy of Vlora in the Constitutional Assembly and in 1925, he was elected senator. He has served in various diplomatic missions. In 1928, he was appointed ambassador of Albania in London and in 1930, in Athens. Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1933) and deputy of Vlora (1937). In 1942, in the government of Mustafa Kruja, he was appointed minister of the Libreated Lands (the ethnic Albanian territories of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which joined Albania during the Second World War). In the cabinet of the government of Fiqri Dine (1944), he held the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Justice. After the Second World War, he emigrated to Italy and then to Austria. Eqrem Vlora has written books with memories, historical, cultural and ethnographic studies, such as: “Aus Berat und vom Tomorr” , Sarajevo 1911 (“From Berat to Tomorr and back”, Tirana 2003), “I dolori del popolo Albanese” (” Pains of the Albanian people), “Lebenserinnerungen” I, II, Munich 1968, (“Memories”, I, II, Tirana 2001)<\/i> etc. He died on March 30, 1964, in Austria. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, the remains of Eqrem Vlora were returned to Albania, thus fulfilling his bequest to rest in his homeland. (In the photo: Eqrem Vlora)<\/i> <\/p>\n
Text:<\/strong> Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 3 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2009, page 2899. <\/p>\n Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eqrem_Vlora <\/p>\n Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Austria, Eqrem Vlora, a political activist and diplomat, passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9164,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions\/9164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}